The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of TravelJ. Fitzgerald, 1880 - 774 pages |
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Page 632
... monkeys are climbers . There is the banks of the Una , near its mouth . It no group answering to the baboons of the was here about one hundred yards wide . The Old World , which live on the ground . The residence of Senhor Danin stood ...
... monkeys are climbers . There is the banks of the Una , near its mouth . It no group answering to the baboons of the was here about one hundred yards wide . The Old World , which live on the ground . The residence of Senhor Danin stood ...
Page 634
... monkeys ' drinking - cups ( Cuyas de Maccao ) , and are the capsules which contain Our evenings were generally fully em- the nuts sold under the names just mentioned , ployed preserving our collections and mak- , in Covent Garden Market ...
... monkeys ' drinking - cups ( Cuyas de Maccao ) , and are the capsules which contain Our evenings were generally fully em- the nuts sold under the names just mentioned , ployed preserving our collections and mak- , in Covent Garden Market ...
Page 636
... monkeys make a most fearful and harrow . ing noise , under which it is difficult to keep up one's buoyancy of spirit . The feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is cal- culated to inspire is increased tenfold under this ...
... monkeys make a most fearful and harrow . ing noise , under which it is difficult to keep up one's buoyancy of spirit . The feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is cal- culated to inspire is increased tenfold under this ...
Page 639
... monkeys - Serpents- Insects . BEFORE leaving the subject of Pará , where 1 resided , as already stated , in all eighteen months , it will be necessary to give a more detailed account of several matters connected with the customs of the ...
... monkeys - Serpents- Insects . BEFORE leaving the subject of Pará , where 1 resided , as already stated , in all eighteen months , it will be necessary to give a more detailed account of several matters connected with the customs of the ...
Page 641
... monkeys the affecting meeting of mother_and_son a were rare in the immediate vicinity of Pará . few days before the crucifixion . The images I met with three species only in the forest are brought face to face in the middle of the near ...
... monkeys the affecting meeting of mother_and_son a were rare in the immediate vicinity of Pará . few days before the crucifixion . The images I met with three species only in the forest are brought face to face in the middle of the near ...
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afterward alligators anchor animal ants appearance ashore banks beautiful birds boat branches Brazilian broad cacao Cafuzo called Cametá campos canoe Cardozo Caripí channel clothed coast color creek distance Double number dry season Ecitons eggs farinha feet fish flocks foliage Fonte Boa forest fruit ground habits hammocks head height inches Indians inhabitants insects interior islands Japurá kind lake land larv¿ leaves length live lower main river mameluco mandioca miles monkeys montaria morning mouth Mundurucús natives nearly neighborhood neighboring night o'clock Obydos palm Pará Pará river passed plants Portuguese ramble Rio Negro road rocinha sail sand sandy Santarem seemed seen Senhor shade shape shore side Solimoens species stream Tabatinga tail Tapajos tion Tocantins Toucans travelling trees tribes trunks Tupí turtles Upper Amazons vegetation vessel village voyage walk wild wind wings woods yards young
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Page 758 - As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole organic world ; therefore the study of butterflies — creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity — instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.
Page 673 - Europe the male has been observed to place itself, in the evening, at the entrance of its burrow, and stridulate until a female approaches, when the louder notes are succeeded by a more subdued tone, whilst the successful musician caresses with his antennae the mate he has won.
Page 634 - ... vivid flash of lightning bursts forth, then a crash of thunder, and down streams the deluging rain. Such storms soon cease, leaving bluish-black motionless clouds in the sky until night. Meantime all nature is refreshed; but heaps of flower-petals and fallen leaves are seen under the trees. Towards evening life revives again, and the ringing uproar is resumed from bush and tree. The following morning the sun again rises in a cloudless sky; and so the cycle is completed; spring, summer, and autumn,...
Page 633 - Small flocks of parrots flew over on most mornings, at a great height, appearing in distinct relief against the blue sky, always two by two chattering to each other, the pairs being separated by regular intervals ; their bright colours, however, were not apparent at that height.
Page 720 - The line of coast over which the landslip extended was a mile or two in length ; the end of it, however, was hid from our view by an intervening island. It was a grand sight : each downfall created a cloud of spray ; the concussion in one place causing other masses to give way a long distance from it, and thus the crashes continued, swaying to and fro, with little prospect of a termination. When we glided out of sight, two hours after sunrise, the destruction was still going on.
Page 761 - They stream along the ground and climb to the summits of all the lower trees, searching every leaf to its apex, and whenever they encounter a mass of decaying vegetable matter, where booty is plentiful, they concentrate, like other Ecitons, all their forces upon it, the dense phalanx of shining and quickly-moving bodies, as it spreads over the surface, looking like a flood of dark-red liquid.
Page 740 - It is scarcely exaggerating to say that the waters of the Solimoens are as- well stocked with large alligators, in the dry season, as a ditch in England is in summer with tadpoles.
Page 636 - I found the natives generally as much at a loss in this respect as myself. Sometimes a sound is heard like the clang of an iron bar against a hard, hollow tree, or a piercing cry rends the air : these are not repeated, and the succeeding silence tends to heighten the unpleasant impression which they make on the mind. With the natives it is always the Curupira, the wild man or spirit of the forest, which produces all noises they are unable to explain.
Page 725 - Indian organization, both bodily and mental, is owing to the isolation in which each small tribe has lived, and to the narrow round of life and thought, and close intermarriages for countless generations, which are the necessary results. Their fecundity is of a low degree, for it is very rare to find an Indian family having so many as four children, and we have seen how great is their liability to sickness and death on removal from place to place.